Explore Quotes by Philip Johnson

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.